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The Lieutenant strummed a few chords softly upon his banjo, but old Tillie was drowsily crooning her own accompaniment as she swayed backward and forward, and seemed not to notice. At last, wearied by her unusual efforts, she sank upon the floor in her accustomed attitude and breathed deeply.
I followed that pencil point and in a husky voice repeated the letters. I could see Tillie Baher laughing at me from behind her geography, and every one else had stopped what they were doing to watch and listen, so I forgot to be thankful that I even knew my a b c's.
And, when he held out his hand, smiling: "I just had to do it, Mr. "And how's everything going? You look mighty fine and happy, Tillie." "I'm all right. Mr. Schwitter's gone to the postoffice. He'll be back at five. Will you have a cup of tea, or will you have something else?" The instinct of the Street was still strong in Tillie. The Street did not approve of "something else."
It was in the lull of work that came, even in the Getz family, on Sunday afternoon, that Tillie, summoning to her aid all the fervor of her new-found faith, ventured to face the ordeal of opening up with her father the subject of her conversion. He was sitting on the kitchen porch, dozing over a big Bible spread open on his knee. The children were playing on the lawn, and Mrs.
Miss Margaret's parting advice and promises to Tillie so fired the girl's ambition and determination that some of the sting and anguish of parting from her who stood to the child for all the mother-love that her life had missed, was taken away in the burning purpose with which she found herself imbued, to bend her every thought and act in all the years to come to the reaching of that glorious goal which her idolized teacher set before her.
"Just till I kin get you another school, Tillie," he consoled her. "I'll be lookin' out for a wacancy in the county for you, you bet!" "Thank you, Doc," she answered wearily; "but you know another school couldn't possibly be open to me until next fall five months from now." She threw her head back upon the palm of her hand. "I'm so tired so very tired of it all. What's the use of struggling?
Until now, K. and Tillie, when they met, had met conversationally on the common ground of food. They no longer had that, and between them both lay like a barrier their last conversation. "Are you happy, Tillie?" said K. suddenly. "I expected you'd ask me that. I've been thinking what to say." Her reply set him watching her face. More attractive it certainly was, but happy?
This was put down as Ebbinflow, and would take up at least an entire afternoon. Tillie had a craze for antiques, and there was a noted shop only twenty miles from Breakwater.
I see now and indeed in my heart I always knew that I did you injustice." She did not look up, but her bosom rose and fell in long breaths. "There has not been a day," he said, "that I have not thought of you, and wished I knew all about you and could see you and speak with you Tillie, what a haunting little personality you are!"
Browning's poems which lay among his books on the table, opened it at the fly-leaf, and pointed to his name. "'Walter'?" read Tillie. "But I thought " "It was Pestalozzi? That was only my little joke. My name's Walter." On the approach of Sunday, Fairchilds questioned her one evening about Absalom. "Will that lad be taking up your whole Sunday evening again?" he demanded.
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